Interview with TWEET | BHL’s The Beat

BHL: The Beat -- In this special episode Black Hollywood Live hosts DJ Jesse Janedy and Queen interview special guest TWEET! Charlene Keys (born January 21, 1972), known by the stage name Tweet, is an American soul/neo soul Grammy Award nominated singer-songwriter. The youngest child of Tom and Shirley Keys, Tweet was born in Rochester, New York on January 21, 1972, and grew up singing in the church along with her parents and her four older siblings (three brothers, Tom, Cedric and Lonnie, and one sister, Sundra). Among them, the five children mastered instruments such as the piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, and many more.

As a young girl, Tweet was inspired not only by her family, but also by larger-than-life divas Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston (whom she later worked with). Tweet's first steps into a career in the music industry first began when she enrolled in Rochester's School of the Arts. In 1990, at the age of nineteen, Tweet gave